Volume 3 - CH 3.2
Act 3-3.2 : Saria Academy
「Yeah, some people do call me that.」
As she replied, Chiyuki finally realized why the male receptionist looked at her in a peculiar way. She had never asked for such an alias and didn’t quite like being identified by it, however, since the alias was given to her by the people of this world and it would be problematic to deny it, she just let it be.
「It was just a guess when I saw a black haired beauty with a silver card issued by the Holy Republic of Lenaria, but to think I got it right! You really are the Black Haired Sage, Chiyuki-dono! It’s an hono–」
「Uhm, excuse me but… can I enter the library…」
When it seemed like things were going to be dragged for too long, Chiyuki interrupted before the male receptionist finished his sentence.
「Ah, I deeply apologize. You may enter, Chiyuki-dono.」
Though the male receptionist appeared to keenly want to talk to her, Chiyuki decided to ignore his silent plea and focus on her task.
Once in the library, Chiyuki first headed towards the catalog near the entrance and searched for the location of the book she was looking for.
The book she wanted was a record book about the different types of magic that meddled with someone’s soul or mind. Among those spells, there was magic that could induce sleep or bring disorder to the mind, and so she concluded that there must be magic that could manipulate someone’s mind too.
She walked between the bookshelves and soon found the one she was looking for.
The record book lay amongst a thousand others on the shelf that caught her gaze. Though the book was written in this world’s language, Chiyuki had no problem reading it. She had mastered the human language of this world to a certain extent and found its letters to be truthfully quite simple.
In this world’s language, there were a total of 63 letters, which were divided into big, middle, and small letters, each composed of 21 letters. In addition, there were several notations to each letter. This along with the sentence structures of this language were quite similar to the Japanese language rather than English, so Chiyuki had learned it fairly quickly.
Naturally, no matter how much she learnt the language, reading the books of this world, written in foreign letters, was still a long and arduous job for her.
With the exception of Rino who was pretty much indifferent about learning to read the letters, even now Shirone and Sahoko were still having a hard time reading the letters of this world. And though Kyouka said that she could read the letters just fine, Chiyuki was rather doubtful about it. Contrary to the master though, Kyouka’s maid, Kaya, seemed to be able to read just fine.
But, the most unexpected ones in this case that had managed to shock Chiyuki were Reiji and Nao. The two of them had learnt how to read the letters of this world at breakneck speed. Especially Reiji, who had an extremely high learning ability. His mastery was almost comparable to Chiyuki’s despite never seeming to put any effort in that regard. And that had made Chiyuki quite vexed.
She had put so much effort into learning the letters, staying up late at night everyday until she was able to read the letters properly. However, in the end, she had gotten the same result as the genius who had never even put any effort in it. The same went for Nao, though her prowess lied in her physical abilities, she was in fact an extremely fast learner too, a wild genius so to speak.
And so, she had put even more strenuous effort until finally she was capable of reading and writing the letters of this world.
Naturally, she still met some difficulties from time to time.
In her case, it felt just like trying to read Japanese that was written entirely in Romaji instead of a mix of Kanji and Hiragana.
Chiyuki ended up taking several books with her, using the magic hand spell to grab the books located in unreachable heights. Magic hand was a spell that created a transparent hand with mana, it could be used to take objects from distant places. Though the maximum number of hands one could conjure was around two or three, Chiyuki could use a hundred at the same time, all stretching as long as a hundred meters.
The weight limit that a magic hand could carry usually relied on the magical power of the user, so even if a person with weak magical power used a magic hand, they couldn’t lift heavy objects that exceeded the limit of their magical power.
In Chiyuki’s case, since she had fairly powerful magical abilities, carrying heavy objects with her magic hand was no big deal. As for how powerful it was, she could very well smash a human hand with that hand
After taking around twenty books with her, Chiyuki then proceeded to go looking for a chair and desk to read the books.
As the rules stated, the books in this library weren’t for lending. It was for this reason that all the books in this library were read in the same location, hence the desks and chairs prepared for use. Since they couldn’t rent the books, some would transcribe the information they needed on their personal parchments, allowing them to take it with them anywhere.
Chiyuki started reading after finding an empty seat.
The first one she read was one describing the rules of this type of magic. It recounted the experiments some magicians made to figure out how long the effects of this magic would last for each type of monster.
Chiyuki kept reading that book, thinking that it might be useful.
「Black Haired Sage, Chiyuki-dono.」
A few minutes later, someone called out to her.
When Chiyuki turned around to the direction of the voice, she found that the one who called her was the male receptionist from before.
「Uhm, is something the matter?」
Since speaking with a loud voice wasn’t allowed in the library, she replied with a whisper.
「Uhm, my apologies for disturbing you, Chiyuki-dono. I was just told that vice president Tarabos wants to meet you… may I ask if you can spare some of your time to meet him?」
The male receptionist spoke in an apologizing manner.
「Vice president?」
「Yes, the vice president of the Magician Association.」
The male receptionist nodded along with his response.
Chiyuki had never met the vice president of the Magician Association, Tarabos, before. Even though she didn’t really care much about meeting him and wanted very much to keep reading, she couldn’t refuse given his status and influence in the association. It couldn’t be helped, but she had to go meet him to show him some respect.
Chiyuki was then guided by the male receptionist into a room in the library. There, a plump middle-aged man was waiting for her. Chiyuki guessed that the man was around fifty years old, his smiling face gave the impression of a merchant rather than a magician—he absolutely didn’t look like a magician at all.
「Chiyuki-dono, this is vice president Tarabos.」
The male receptionist introduced the plump man.
「Oooh, I never expected the Black Haired Sage to be a beauty to such an extent. It’s an honor to meet a beauty like you, Chiyuki-dono.」
The plump man placed his right hand on his chest and then bowed to her.
「Thank you. May I ask what business you have with me, vice president Tarabos?」
Chiyuki returned Tarabos’ greeting in the same way. But, she didn’t beat around the bush since she wanted to go back to reading the books again.
「My apologies for troubling you Chiyuki-dono. The truth is, I have an investigation request for Hero-dono.」
Tarabos spoke with a fawning and apologizing tone.
「A request?」
Chiyuki tilted her head in confusion. She had no idea what the other party’s request was. But, since it came from the vice president of the Magician Association, Chiyuki decided to lend an ear for the time being.
「Yeah, some people do call me that.」
As she replied, Chiyuki finally realized why the male receptionist looked at her in a peculiar way. She had never asked for such an alias and didn’t quite like being identified by it, however, since the alias was given to her by the people of this world and it would be problematic to deny it, she just let it be.
「It was just a guess when I saw a black haired beauty with a silver card issued by the Holy Republic of Lenaria, but to think I got it right! You really are the Black Haired Sage, Chiyuki-dono! It’s an hono–」
「Uhm, excuse me but… can I enter the library…」
When it seemed like things were going to be dragged for too long, Chiyuki interrupted before the male receptionist finished his sentence.
「Ah, I deeply apologize. You may enter, Chiyuki-dono.」
Though the male receptionist appeared to keenly want to talk to her, Chiyuki decided to ignore his silent plea and focus on her task.
Once in the library, Chiyuki first headed towards the catalog near the entrance and searched for the location of the book she was looking for.
The book she wanted was a record book about the different types of magic that meddled with someone’s soul or mind. Among those spells, there was magic that could induce sleep or bring disorder to the mind, and so she concluded that there must be magic that could manipulate someone’s mind too.
She walked between the bookshelves and soon found the one she was looking for.
The record book lay amongst a thousand others on the shelf that caught her gaze. Though the book was written in this world’s language, Chiyuki had no problem reading it. She had mastered the human language of this world to a certain extent and found its letters to be truthfully quite simple.
In this world’s language, there were a total of 63 letters, which were divided into big, middle, and small letters, each composed of 21 letters. In addition, there were several notations to each letter. This along with the sentence structures of this language were quite similar to the Japanese language rather than English, so Chiyuki had learned it fairly quickly.
Naturally, no matter how much she learnt the language, reading the books of this world, written in foreign letters, was still a long and arduous job for her.
With the exception of Rino who was pretty much indifferent about learning to read the letters, even now Shirone and Sahoko were still having a hard time reading the letters of this world. And though Kyouka said that she could read the letters just fine, Chiyuki was rather doubtful about it. Contrary to the master though, Kyouka’s maid, Kaya, seemed to be able to read just fine.
But, the most unexpected ones in this case that had managed to shock Chiyuki were Reiji and Nao. The two of them had learnt how to read the letters of this world at breakneck speed. Especially Reiji, who had an extremely high learning ability. His mastery was almost comparable to Chiyuki’s despite never seeming to put any effort in that regard. And that had made Chiyuki quite vexed.
She had put so much effort into learning the letters, staying up late at night everyday until she was able to read the letters properly. However, in the end, she had gotten the same result as the genius who had never even put any effort in it. The same went for Nao, though her prowess lied in her physical abilities, she was in fact an extremely fast learner too, a wild genius so to speak.
And so, she had put even more strenuous effort until finally she was capable of reading and writing the letters of this world.
Naturally, she still met some difficulties from time to time.
In her case, it felt just like trying to read Japanese that was written entirely in Romaji instead of a mix of Kanji and Hiragana.
Chiyuki ended up taking several books with her, using the magic hand spell to grab the books located in unreachable heights. Magic hand was a spell that created a transparent hand with mana, it could be used to take objects from distant places. Though the maximum number of hands one could conjure was around two or three, Chiyuki could use a hundred at the same time, all stretching as long as a hundred meters.
The weight limit that a magic hand could carry usually relied on the magical power of the user, so even if a person with weak magical power used a magic hand, they couldn’t lift heavy objects that exceeded the limit of their magical power.
In Chiyuki’s case, since she had fairly powerful magical abilities, carrying heavy objects with her magic hand was no big deal. As for how powerful it was, she could very well smash a human hand with that hand
After taking around twenty books with her, Chiyuki then proceeded to go looking for a chair and desk to read the books.
As the rules stated, the books in this library weren’t for lending. It was for this reason that all the books in this library were read in the same location, hence the desks and chairs prepared for use. Since they couldn’t rent the books, some would transcribe the information they needed on their personal parchments, allowing them to take it with them anywhere.
Chiyuki started reading after finding an empty seat.
The first one she read was one describing the rules of this type of magic. It recounted the experiments some magicians made to figure out how long the effects of this magic would last for each type of monster.
Chiyuki kept reading that book, thinking that it might be useful.
「Black Haired Sage, Chiyuki-dono.」
A few minutes later, someone called out to her.
When Chiyuki turned around to the direction of the voice, she found that the one who called her was the male receptionist from before.
「Uhm, is something the matter?」
Since speaking with a loud voice wasn’t allowed in the library, she replied with a whisper.
「Uhm, my apologies for disturbing you, Chiyuki-dono. I was just told that vice president Tarabos wants to meet you… may I ask if you can spare some of your time to meet him?」
The male receptionist spoke in an apologizing manner.
「Vice president?」
「Yes, the vice president of the Magician Association.」
The male receptionist nodded along with his response.
Chiyuki had never met the vice president of the Magician Association, Tarabos, before. Even though she didn’t really care much about meeting him and wanted very much to keep reading, she couldn’t refuse given his status and influence in the association. It couldn’t be helped, but she had to go meet him to show him some respect.
Chiyuki was then guided by the male receptionist into a room in the library. There, a plump middle-aged man was waiting for her. Chiyuki guessed that the man was around fifty years old, his smiling face gave the impression of a merchant rather than a magician—he absolutely didn’t look like a magician at all.
「Chiyuki-dono, this is vice president Tarabos.」
The male receptionist introduced the plump man.
「Oooh, I never expected the Black Haired Sage to be a beauty to such an extent. It’s an honor to meet a beauty like you, Chiyuki-dono.」
The plump man placed his right hand on his chest and then bowed to her.
「Thank you. May I ask what business you have with me, vice president Tarabos?」
Chiyuki returned Tarabos’ greeting in the same way. But, she didn’t beat around the bush since she wanted to go back to reading the books again.
「My apologies for troubling you Chiyuki-dono. The truth is, I have an investigation request for Hero-dono.」
Tarabos spoke with a fawning and apologizing tone.
「A request?」
Chiyuki tilted her head in confusion. She had no idea what the other party’s request was. But, since it came from the vice president of the Magician Association, Chiyuki decided to lend an ear for the time being.
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